The T-Bird is given the lifestyle-glamour treatment in this 1960 commercial: Note the gated mansion, the jet airliner, the cool jazz soundtrack. Though it wasn’t quite clear at the time, they had essentially invented the personal luxury coupe. (More often, the opposite occurs as demand tapers off.) Clearly, the Ford product planners were onto something with the Squarebirds, as the 1958-1960 ‘Birds are known today. And although this rarely happens in the Motor City, sales of the second-generation Thunderbird actually rose over the three-year product cycle: nearly 38,000 units in 1958 67,000 in ’59, and 93,000 in 1960. In 1960, the Ford Thunderbird was on a third-year facelift of the original four-place T-Bird introduced in 1958. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.Glamour is the theme in this original two-minute promo for the 1960 Thunderbird, Ford’s personal luxury coupe. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it.

View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap New FE engines were also introduced in 1958.įor 1960, the grille was revised again, now with an egg crate background with solid cross bars in front, behind the tail lights got an egg crate look too, just 'Thunderbird' on the door now, but sergeant stripes at the rear of the rear quarter, a sunroof was now an option.Įngines 235hp 352 cu in FE V8 (G Code), 300hp 352 cu in FE V8 (Y Code) and 350hp 430 cu in MEL V8 (J Code)

To accommodate the higher transmission tunnel that was required in such a low car, Ford used it as a styling feature, building in a full-length center console featuring ashtrays, switches etc. The new Thunderbird was now a four seater, it was very low and now available as a fixed-roof pillarless hardtop or a convertible. The second generation Thunderbirds were built from 1958-60, nicknamed the 'Square Bird', they had a new angular profile with quad headlights, they were now bigger and heavier, two feet longer than the first generation two seat roadster.

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